Bill Walker did a great job in the first quarter as a Melo understudy. I was really impressed with Turiaf's play too. Sucked we left points at the line and just didn't get a couple more stops. I really can't even break down the loss much more than that. Looking forward to game 2, might have to see some of you fools out there at Stout or wherever you end up choosing for the UK meetup.

BlueSeats wrote:

nixluva wrote:

BlueSeats wrote:

nixluva wrote:these refs have to get it together and stop allowing the C's to get away with murder, tho I don't expect to get a better whistle. Knicks just have to play thru the bogus calls and no calls. This loss doesn't really bother me. I think the Knicks know now that they really can beat this team. We didn't get a typical Melo game and I expect that we'll see that. The GREAT NEWS was STAT looked great!!!!

We need to speed things up just a bit and get into the paint more on the C's. I think that will happen. The C's don't have a lot of shot creators and they're not a great shooting team outside of Allen, KG and Pierce. If you play up on those guys you can hold them down. I thought overall the way we played Rondo was pretty good. We just need to get our offense fixed just a bit and I think we can beat the C's.

Of course the other side of the coin is the Celtics know they can beat us by only playing hard for half the game, and could theoretically crush us if they played well start to finish.

Celtics were playing hard all game. They just can't go that hard for 48. You're giving them too much credit. We got an off 2nd half from Melo, STAT was still killing in the 4th qtr so it's not like the C's D was so much better. We just have to do a better job with shot selection. More drive and less jumper is going to be a big key. C's can't handle our best offensive players. I want to see the Knicks pick up the pace more too, cuz that was more of a C's pace.

The one thing we miss from not having Felton is the end to end speed and pushing the ball regularly. Not to mention that he was the best we had to run PnR.

You didn't notice their increased defensive intensity in the second half? It was no coincidence our offense was surging in the second quarter and halted in the second half.

I don't believe the C's can play hard on D for 48 minutes anymore. We have to take advantage of that next time and go hard at them a bit more by driving the ball. We let them off the hook when we just jack up jumpers.

Knicksfan wrote:I wish I could simply call it a tough loss and move on, but Im too freaking disgusted right now to look at the bright side of another meaningless moral victory. You blame this on the many blown calls by the refs. I blame it on our pathetic third quarter.

Didn't we learn anything from the heartbreaking loss to them after the trade? This was exactly the same. We started on fire, Boston adjusted their defense, we played out of control and scared and finally we gave the game away. Same script. For all the good effort, I can't take anything good when we again couldn't adjust to the Celtics.

Boston played as horrible as a defending east champion can, yet we gave them the game again choking in the second half. What's the point of watching when they will repeat the same script again.

And Melo, cant believe it but tonight proved he isn't even in Pierce's level. How much I hate that guy, but he came up big when his team needed him while Melo disappeared. Wasn't he supposed to be our closer? Weren't the last seconds of game his time?

This was more disappointing than one would've thought. 3his isn't a game we simply lost. We seemed to hit them with our best shot and again lost in the final play. This loss killed 90% excitement of being again in the playoffs. This loss really got to me...

Melo had a bad game, but that doesn't mean he won't bounce back and have a great series. I think what really hit me was that they don't have anyone that can stop STAT!!! Melo basically just has to make some minor adjustments, cuz they won't be able to stop him either.

The Celtics are going to have to bring it every single night cuz our team is more potent. They will only be able to get by on guile for only so long before we simply overwhelm them. Jermaine O'Neal can't go hard for 6-7 games. KG and Pierce have to pick their spots. If we can press the pace more in the next game I think we'll wear them down.

Also you shouldn't have your enthusiasm killed so easily. Especially when we haven't even played one home game yet. This series is far from over after one game.

OasisBU wrote:Also Hardcore or Orange should make the next game thread - Nalod has bad luck.

martin did you read this? i quote it to make sure.

oasisbu, your wishes is my commandments.

nykshaknbake wrote:Great effort buy our guys. Throat really impressed with his D and some nice inside buckets. All the offensive rebounds really killed us. Even when they didn't score it throws the team off their rhythm and tires them out. Despite we almost won. Gotta be worried about how we stalled when Boston turned up the D but stat was looking like early season stat.

My autocorrect made turiaf into throat. Lol.